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The practices of cooperation have received increasing attention from those who fail to act in isolation, and instead, join in order to produce better results for the welfare of the community, in which the economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects are conditions necessary to achieve these results. This article shows the collaborative practices, in the perception of the producers of an association of organic agricultural. The results of this study has a qualitative character and the methodology applied was based on descriptive and exploratory researches, whose method used was a case study, in which was possible to get information about the subject focused. The conclusion indicates that the performance of the agricultural association is satisfactory, and which there is the development of collective production, based on the principles of cooperation among its members. Besides, there are the construction of spaces for mutual aid, exchange and sharing of efforts, information and resources.